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meselfs
Sep 26, 2015

The body may die, but the soul is always rotten
Whole website about weird stuff in the desert:

http://www.otherhand.org/

Notably, a long dead family of German tourists:

http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hunt-for-the-death-valley-germans/

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meselfs
Sep 26, 2015

The body may die, but the soul is always rotten
I found this today, off trail just a bit:



I have no idea what it was but I thought it was really weird. I wanted to eat it too.

meselfs
Sep 26, 2015

The body may die, but the soul is always rotten
Thx Picnic! I was enamored because it reminded me of maitake, but reading about it says things like "bitter" and "digestive pain likely". Edible though, nice to know.

lavaca posted:

Coral fungus looks most impressive when it's in the process of emerging out of the ground. You'd think you had stumbled upon a nuclear waste dump or something equally sinister but it's just fungus.

Here is some local creepy stuff in the woods. A few years ago, a man murdered his wife and daughter, set their house on fire and then hid out in the underground bunker he'd been building for the past 8 years. The bunker was not far from a fairly popular hiking trail, so I'm sure at least a few people walked past it over the years without realizing what they had seen. Story with pictures.

Yes, there was some just emerging, freaky :). Nice story btw.

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